From 1114036955048177548 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,b5271f3e60ab8de3,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-19 01:39:03 PST Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ From: kevlin@wslint.demon.co.uk (Kevlin Henney) Path: nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!peernews.demon.co.uk!wslint.demon.co.uk!kevlin Subject: Re: Online draft C++ standard? References: <3fekco$9id@engnews2.eng.sun.com> Organization: Westinghouse Systems Ltd. Reply-To: Kevlin@wslint.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.27 Lines: 32 X-Posting-Host: wslint.demon.co.uk Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 09:39:03 +0000 Message-ID: <790508343snz@wslint.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk In article davidt@netcom.com "David Taylor" writes: >In article , reycri@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz >(Reynaldo Chrisostomo) wrote: > >> I know there is a good book that deals with iostreams, and the STL document >> by Stepanov and Lee is excellent, but I am having a hard time looking for >> documents that described the string class(es) in detail. > >The Draft Standard C++ Library, P. J. Plauger, Prentice Hall, 1995, >ISBN 0-13-117003-1. Can't remember what it cost. It is now outdated, >but it defines the library except for STL and gives an implementation >for the classes, including the string classes (string, wstring, and >bitstring). Unfortunately it's more than a little outdated: string and wstring are now template specialisations of basic_string<>, bitstring has been dropped (can now use vector from the STL), dynarray and ptrdynarray have been dropped (again, in favour of STL containers), and I believe that IOStreams are now templated. Also the string stuff has been / is being made to converge with the style of the STL. It's an interesting read from a historical perspective, but around half the book is no longer applicable. Plauger jumped the gun and got shot :-( +---------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | Kevlin A P Henney | Human vs Machine Intelligence: | | kevlin@wslint.demon.co.uk | Humans can wreck a nice beach more easily | | Westinghouse Systems Ltd | | +---------------------------+-------------------------------------------+